Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown… There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“There are just some kind of men who—who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses… That proves something - that a gang of wild animals… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but i know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I have nothing but gratitude for the people who made the film. It was a most unusual experience. I'm no judge, and… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“To the Richmond Leader in 1966 when the school board banned her novel: “Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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“The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses… That proves something - that a gang of wild animals… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“No jury in this part of the world's going to say, "We think you're guilty, but not very," on a charge like that. It… — Harper Lee Copy Share
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. — Harper Lee Copy Share
“I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is… — Harper Lee Copy Share
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of… — Harper Lee Copy Share
“folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’… — Harper Lee Copy Share
It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it… — Harper Lee Copy Share
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there,… — Harper Lee Copy Share
“To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence that the crime… — Harper Lee Copy Share
“Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks." Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his… — Harper Lee Copy Share
“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.” — Harper Lee Copy Share
I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class… — Harper Lee Copy Share
“The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not… — Harper Lee Copy Share
I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it. — Harper Lee Copy Share
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